OWEN
,
HUGH
(
1761
-
1827
),
cleric and local historian
;
son of
Pryce
Owen
,
physician
,
Shrewsbury
(‘
Pryce
Owen
of
Bettws,’ Mont.
, according to
R.
Williams
,
Mont. Worthies
, 2nd ed.), and his wife
Bridget
, daughter of
John
Whitfield
. Although the connection of
Hugh
Owen
with
Wales
is but slight he merits inclusion as the joint-
author
, with
J. B.
Blakeway
, of
A History of Shrewsbury
, two vols., quarto,
1825
, a work which is still of value to
Welsh historians
. He was educated at
S. John's College
,
Cambridge
(
B.A.
1783
,
M.A.
1807
). He became
vicar
of
S. Julian's
,
Shrewsbury
,
1791
,
prebendary
of
Gillingham Minor
in the
cathedral of Salisbury
,
1803
, in
1819
presented to a ‘portion’ of the
vicarage
of
Bampton, Oxon.
, became
archdeacon
of
Salop
,
27 Dec. 1821
, and
prebendary
of
Bishopshill
, in the
cathedral of Lichfield
,
30 March 1822
, and, finally, he succeeded
J. B.
Blakeway
as
minister
of the
royal peculiar of S. Mary's
,
Shrewsbury
, 1826. He d. at
Shrewsbury
23 Dec. 1827
. His son,
Edward Pryce
Owen
, is separately noticed.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
R. Williams
,
Montgomeryshire Worthies
, second ed.,
1894
(2nd. ed.).
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
